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Gary Hufbauer: 2015 — A Decisive Year for Globalization

Gary Hufbauer Peterson Institute For International Economics
January 09, 2015
Globalization has contributed enormously to world prosperity. The rationalization of production through global supply chains and the application of new technology worldwide — not just where it was invented — made the 60 years following the Second World War the most prosperous era in human history.
 

But today globalization faces strong political headwinds. The very term triggers protest from the political left — it has come to be blamed for the prosperity of the top 1 percent, stagnant wages for everyone else and the excesses of Wall Street.
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Frank R. Samolis: SOS on TPA — The Importance of Trade Promotion Authority

Frank R Samolis Squire Patton Boggs Llp
January 08, 2015
Following a dramatic end to the 113th Congress — which saw year-end compromises around defense spending authorization and the so-called “cromnibus” appropriations bill — President Obama and the newly elected Republican majority in the Senate are under pressure to demonstrate to the American people their capacity to govern for the next two years.
 
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Scott Miller: WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement — Will the `Self-Help’ Program Succeed?

Scott Miller Center For Strategic And International Studies
January 05, 2015
We have just passed the one-year anniversary of the WTO’s ninth Ministerial Conference in Bali, where members decided to adopt the agreement on trade facilitation. After overcoming some mid-year theatrics in Geneva, the WTO’s General Council closed 2014 by adopting the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) protocol and opening it for acceptance by members. This marks the first fully multilateral agreement adopted by the WTO since its creation 20 years ago.
 
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Steve Melito: Manufacturing, Entrepreneurship and Economic Strength

Steve Melito Fuzehub
December 30, 2014
What’s the best way to measure the strength of a state’s economy?
 
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Bruce Katz and Mark Muro: What States Need to Do to Grow Their Advanced Industries

Bruce Katz Brookings Institution
Mark Muro Brookings
December 22, 2014
Voters said unequivocally in this year’s midterm elections that economic growth and quality jobs are their top concerns. The divided federal government that resulted from those elections seems likely to take incremental but not transformative steps on critical economic issues. In other words, less gridlock but little impact.
 
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Kati Suominen: Boosting Small Business Lending — Look to the U.K.

Kati Suominen
December 08, 2014
After a recent public consultation with the business community and financial services industry, the U.K. government has decided to enact a law that requires large lenders to share information with alternative and smaller lenders about small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) whose credit applications have been rejected.
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How Big Data Can Help Contain Ebola — Q&A with Joy Alamgir

Joy Alamgir Xerox
December 02, 2014
When a disease outbreak strikes, it’s often the fear of the unknown that causes panic — rather than any sense of the actual risk of falling ill. Just ask people who were in Dallas or New York City when cases of Ebola were discovered there.
 
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Pamela Passman: How To Mobilize Risk Management Tools Against IP Threats

Pamela Passman Create Org
December 01, 2014
In an increasingly competitive global economy, information and ideas are the fuel that makes companies viable, allowing them to grow and create jobs.
 

Intellectual property (IP) — that covered by patents, trademarks, copyrights and harder-to-protect trade secrets — is now worth as much as 75 percent of the total value of major companies. But while the importance of these assets has grown, many businesses lag in their efforts to protect IP.
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Grayson Brulte: From Quartz to Smartwatch — Will History Repeat Itself?

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
November 26, 2014
As smartwatches become more prevalent, it might be worthwhile for the venerable Swiss watch industry to reflect back on the turbulent 1970s following the advent of the quartz watch.
 
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Stephen Ezell: ITA Expansion Agreement a Victory for Global Innovation Economy

Stephen Ezell Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
November 14, 2014
The United States and China aren’t the only potential victors to emerge this week from an agreement to expand a two-decade-old list of information and communications technology (ICT) products that can be traded duty-free. The global economy stands to benefit from innovation that would be unlocked by an updated Information Technology Agreement (ITA).
 
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